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Center for World University Rankings just published their 2014 rankings.

http://cwur.org/2014/

ECU in at 718, but our Chinese campus (ECU Tech) is higher at 528 (East China University of Science and Technology)

I must admit I didn't study the list too closely however it lost a bit of credibility with me when at first glance I noticed that Tufts, Brown, Notre Dame, Georgetown and Vanderbilt Universities are all behind the University of Utah.

University of Akron and Texas Tech ahead of Creighton.
Arizona ahead of Brown, Georgia Tech, Case Western, Rice.

Cmon man.

Ranking organizations use different metrics. For example, 22.5% of the USNews ranking is based on peers.

CWUR uses only objective metrics, such as: number of alumni that hold CEO positions at the world's top companies. One might disagree with their metrics but at least they are quantitative.

Many universities that rank high with one organization are positioned very low by others. Those that do not perform a large amount of research are falling behind. They may be outstanding teaching schools but some believe research is essential. STEM is in vogue.

Choose your poison.

This one bases too much on output quantity - publications, patents, etc. It's more useful to see that metric compared to an institution's size. Then you can measure what portion of students and faculty and researchers are actually playing a part, which would be a better determinant of overall quality. You can have one researcher who pumps out publications regularly and brings up the institution's overall output, but that doesn't mean the other researchers do anything of worth. It's also very easy to publish research these days if you're just willing to slide down the totem pole of journal quality. So another metric that should be measured is the quality of the publication.

This ranking system ignores a lot of pertinent information.

I agree. Each ranking system has its own bias/metrics. This is ranking entrepreneurial colleges. So each of these universities have a top notch entrepreneurial program within their business school. That is a good thing, right?

This ranking is ridiculous. It is dead on arrival.

Yeah when ranked higher than cuse.....


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(07-18-2014 02:49 PM)rollgreenwave Wrote: [ -> ]This one bases too much on output quantity - publications, patents, etc. It's more useful to see that metric compared to an institution's size. Then you can measure what portion of students and faculty and researchers are actually playing a part, which would be a better determinant of overall quality.

Several of the metrics are compared to university size.

CWUR's metrics are similar to ARWU.